38 - The Lone Swordsman and the Famous Detective
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SIGN This
is
the
story
SIGN of
one
man's
struggles
SIGN and
his
growth
—
SIGN and
of
parenting
SIGN Military Cliques
Keep Dying
Breaking News:
Diet Launches
Investigation
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The Blood-Stained
Peace Treaty
SIGN Purges Killings
Result in
Political Maneuvering
SIGN Divine Punishment
in Modern Times
Are War Hawks
in Decline?
SIGN Gen'ichiro
[00:37] Fukuchi
It's me.
[00:38] Fukuchi
Are you prepared to join
the military police?
[00:41] Fukuchi
We're the only ones who can
make use of your powers.
[00:44] Fukuchi
Get over here.
[00:45] Fukuzawa
From now on, I work alone.
[02:22] Woman A
Oh, God...
[02:23] Man B
Did they jump?
[02:24] Man C
No, apparently it was a murder.
[02:27] Man C
Shoved out a window.
[02:40] Secretary
Come in.
[02:44] Fukuzawa
My condolences.
[02:46] Fukuzawa
He was a good man.
[02:48] Secretary
Thank you for coming, Fukuzawa-san.
[02:52] Fukuzawa
By the way, what are these documents?
[02:55] Secretary
I'm organizing.
[02:57] Fukuzawa
Why?
[02:58] Secretary
I suspect that the murderer was intent on
either stealing or destroying these documents.
[03:06] Secretary
In order to confirm that,
[03:08] Secretary
I'm arranging all the documents
according to any potential patterns.
[03:12] Secretary
This entire room is a catalog for
determining the attacker's motivations.
[03:20] Fukuzawa
I'm told that he was pushed
out of this window.
[03:23] Secretary
The president took me in as a
secretary. I'm indebted to him.
[03:28] Secretary
Solving the nature of the crime would
be the best farewell gift I can offer.
[03:34] Secretary
But, fortunately, the assassin
has already been captured.
[03:39] Secretary
After murdering the president, he was
apprehended by guards on the first floor,
[03:43] Secretary
and is now being held next door.
[03:45] Fukuzawa
What?
[03:46] Fukuzawa
The ten fingerprints recovered from the back of
the president's clothes apparently matched his.
[03:52] Fukuzawa
He's still next door?
[03:54] Secretary
He seems to have given up.
[03:56] Secretary
He's very quiet.
[03:58] Fukuzawa
I'd like to see the assassin.
[04:01] Secretary
Be my guest.
[04:02] Secretary
But please don't touch the documents.
[04:27] Fukuzawa
He's quite an accomplished assassin.
[04:29] Fukuzawa
Reddish hair and dual pistols.
[04:32] Fukuzawa
Which means he must be the child
assassin so famous in the underground.
[04:37] Fukuzawa
But, if this boy truly is Oda Sakunosuke,
[04:40] Fukuzawa
how could he be captured
by mere security guards?
[04:43] Secretary
As you can see, that man is
maintaining his silence.
[04:47] Secretary
The municipal police should
be taking him soon.
[04:50] Fukuzawa
As for you—
[04:51] Rampo
Hey, there!
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[04:58] Rampo
It's damn windy today, huh?
[05:02] Rampo
So, anyway...
[05:04] Rampo
Is there any chance we can
relocate this company?
[05:07] Rampo
The hills are a pain and the
directions are so complicated.
[05:10] Secretary
Excuse me?
[05:11] Rampo
Also, I'm getting hungry.
[05:13] Rampo
D'you have any food?
[05:14] Secretary
Excuse me?
[05:16] Rampo
Here we go again, looking
down on me like some kid.
[05:19] Rampo
Fine, never mind the food.
[05:21] Rampo
Just give me the permit.
[05:23] Rampo
Wait, have you lost it
in all these documents?
[05:25] Rampo
Dammit!
[05:27] Rampo
You're the secretary! You'd better find it!
[05:29] Rampo
I don't have the slightest interest
in the fingerprints in this room.
[05:34] Secretary
What is your problem?
[05:36] Secretary
Regardless of the circumstances,
this is the president's office.
[05:40] Secretary
Unless you're authorized,
you may not be here.
[05:42] Rampo
I'm authorized, though.
[05:44] Rampo
I'm here for an interview today.
[05:47] Rampo
The president did say he would be
interviewing an administration trainee...
[05:52] Rampo
Anyway, I just came here for the working permit
that I'm supposed to get at the interview.
[05:56] Rampo
Once I have that, I can get some
funding from the government.
[06:00] Rampo
Mind if I move this useless paper?
[06:02] Secretary
You may not!
[06:03] Secretary
The very arrangements of these documents
[06:05] Secretary
is a catalog for determining
the attacker's motivations.
[06:09] Rampo
Come on, that's such a blatant lie.
[06:12] Rampo
Forget it.
[06:13] Rampo
I'll find it myself.
[06:15] Rampo
I'll be done in an instant.
[06:17] Fukuzawa
Boy.
[06:18] Fukuzawa
There's a mountain of documents here.
How do you plan to find yours?
[06:22] Rampo
The old man can speak!
[06:24] Rampo
Unlike all your loose papers, mine's got a
heavy stamp and it's printed on thick paper.
[06:30] Secretary
Hey!
[06:32] Secretary
No!
[06:42] Rampo
Found it.
[06:47] Secretary
How could you...
[06:49] Secretary
Now I have to check every sheet
and arrange it all over.
[06:53] Secretary
And I still have to report on the
missing documents within 48 hours.
[06:56] Rampo
Why bother?
[06:58] Rampo
They're all here.
[07:02] Rampo
No documents have been stolen,
[07:05] Rampo
and the assassin didn't kill the president.
[07:08] Rampo
Like, you're the murderer anyway,
aren't you, secretary?
[07:13] Rampo
You arranging documents to keep people away
so that you can come up with an alibi.
[07:19] Rampo
I mean, it's suspicious
if there were fingerprints
[07:22] Rampo
on the president's clothes but
nowhere else in the room.
[07:25] Rampo
The obviously guilty secretary
[07:28] Rampo
and the obviously innocent
assassin are right here...
[07:32] Rampo
And you're just standing there.
[07:34] Rampo
Come on, mister, you're slacking on the job.
[07:38] Secretary
Fukuzawa-san...
[07:40] Secretary
Please kick that kid out of here.
[07:42] Secretary
I can't have him making even
more of a mess in here!
[07:47] Fukuzawa
The assassin's fingerprints were found
on the back of the victim's clothes.
[07:52] Fukuzawa
From when he shoved him.
[07:55] Rampo
There's no way even the best assassin
[07:57] Rampo
could get close to the president
without being noticed.
[08:00] Rampo
The door is right in view of the desk.
[08:03] Rampo
And, if the president resisted before
he was forced out the window,
[08:08] Rampo
the fingerprints would have indicated
him being thrown out, not pushed out.
[08:14] Fukuzawa
He may have happened to
be looking out the window.
[08:18] Rampo
On such a windy day?
[08:20] Rampo
With the window open? By himself?
[08:23] Fukuzawa
He's right.
[08:25] Fukuzawa
Which means it must have
been someone close to him.
[08:28] Rampo
It was someone close to him,
yet the assassin's fingerprints turned up.
[08:32] Rampo
So those prints were faked.
[08:34] Rampo
I heard it's easy to fake fingerprints.
[08:37] Rampo
You just need to make molds of the
fingers using putty or something.
[08:40] Rampo
Weren't you a police officer or
something before, mister secretary?
[08:43] Rampo
You mentioned the 48 hour
investigation law earlier.
[08:46] Secretary
This is ridiculous!
[08:47] Secretary
How would I have taken
the assassin's prints?!
[08:50] Secretary
Fukuzawa-san!
[08:51] Secretary
Just get this brat out of here!
[08:54] Rampo
You were able to get the assassin's
prints because you hired him.
[08:57] Secretary
Shut up!
[08:58] Rampo
Since you hired him, you could
easily entrap a top-tier assassin.
[09:01] Rampo
Even get security guards to catch him.
[09:04] Rampo
I don't think the assassin over there
even knew he was being entrapped.
[09:10] Rampo
I'm sure he'd talk if he
found out he's been fooled.
[09:13] Rampo
Why don't you try asking him?
[09:19] Odasaku
I have no intention of fighting you.
[09:21] Fukuzawa
Don't add more crimes to your guilt.
[09:23] Fukuzawa
You can get off with a lesser
plea if you stop now.
[09:54] Fukuzawa
What?!
[10:00] Fukuzawa
No!
[10:07] Odasaku
There is no forgiveness in this world.
[10:10] Odasaku
Only revenge.
[10:13] Fukuzawa
You...
[10:18] Fukuzawa
Call an ambulance!
[10:19] Fukuzawa
And contact the municipal police!
[10:21] Rampo
I don't think we need to call the ambulance.
[10:24] Rampo
The secretary's dead anyway.
[10:30] ---
[10:31] Rampo
Miss, could I get another red bean soup?
[10:36] Fukuzawa
Why don't you eat the rice cake?
[10:38] Rampo
It's not sweet.
[10:41] Fukuzawa
When did you realize the
secretary was the murderer?
[10:44] Rampo
From the beginning.
[10:45] Rampo
He was wearing a coat, right?
[10:48] Rampo
Who wears a coat when
they're sorting documents?
[10:51] Rampo
Your sleeves would get in the way.
[10:54] Rampo
He was concealing tools for faking
the assassin's fingerprints.
[10:59] Fukuzawa
Boy...
[11:00] Rampo
My name is Edogawa Rampo.
[11:03] Rampo
Remember that.
[11:04] Fukuzawa
What about school?
[11:05] Rampo
I was at a police academy,
living in the dorms.
[11:09] Rampo
I had an argument
with the dorm supervisor,
[11:10] Rampo
so I exposed all of their
past affairs and I got kicked out.
[11:17] Rampo
Since then, I've been bouncing
around from place to place.
[11:19] Rampo
I was a live-in worker at a garrison,
[11:22] Rampo
until I got thrown out for blabbing
about the head chief's corruption.
[11:27] Fukuzawa
Your parents?
[11:29] Rampo
Dead.
[11:31] Rampo
In an accident.
[11:33] Rampo
That's why I came out to Yokohama.
[11:37] Fukuzawa
Are you full now?
[11:39] Rampo
Yeah, thanks.
[11:40] Fukuzawa
Good.
[11:42] Fukuzawa
Well done today.
[11:45] Rampo
That's it?
[11:47] Rampo
You're talking to a fourteen-year-old boy
who's lost his parents, his job and his future.
[11:53] Rampo
That's all you've got?
SIGN Fukuzawa
Yukichi
[11:59] Rampo
What's that?
[12:00] Fukuzawa
My contact information.
[12:02] Fukuzawa
Security police.
[12:04] Fukuzawa
I'm basically a bodyguard.
[12:06] Fukuzawa
Contact me if you're ever in trouble.
[12:09] Fukuzawa
I'll help you free of charge,
the first time or so.
[12:24] Fukuzawa
Boy.
[12:30] Fukuzawa
Yes?
[12:32] Rampo
Help me, mister bodyguard.
[12:37] Rampo
I don't have work or a place to stay.
[12:40] Rampo
I'm going to die.
[12:44] Fukuzawa
I'm headed to work.
[12:46] Fukuzawa
Come with me.
[12:47] Fukuzawa
A client is looking for manpower.
[12:50] Fukuzawa
I'll broker a deal for you.
[12:52] Fukuzawa
Does that work?
[12:54] Rampo
Really?!
[13:02] Rampo
A theater?
SIGN Sekai Gekijou
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[13:03] Fukuzawa
The manager has been
lamenting a staff shortage.
[13:07] Fukuzawa
If I can finish my job here,
I'm sure she'd be open to hiring you.
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[13:14] Fukuzawa
What job?
[13:16] Manager
We have some time until opening.
[13:18] Manager
Check the scene for me.
[13:21] Fukuzawa
Do you have some idea who the
threats might be coming from?
[13:25] Manager
The police will do the investigating.
[13:27] Manager
Your job is to arrest the
attacker when it happens.
[13:32] Fukuzawa
Could you at least tell
me what the threat is?
[13:35] Manager
Here.
[13:37] Manager
We received this several days ago.
[13:40] Manager
"The angels shall bring true
death upon the performers. V."
[13:46] Fukuzawa
V?
[13:47] Rampo
The performers, huh?
[13:50] Rampo
So is it the actors who
are going to be killed?
[13:53] Rampo
I can't wait to see what happens.
[13:56] Manager
Who is this child?
[13:58] Fukuzawa
He's looking for work.
[14:00] Fukuzawa
I heard you needed more people.
[14:04] Fukuzawa
I'm hoping you can interview him
once this situation is resolved.
[14:09] Manager
Please send me a resume, then.
[14:11] Manager
I'll evaluate him along
with the other candidates.
[14:14] Rampo
There are other people who signed up?
[14:17] Rampo
There's no chance I'm getting hired, then.
[14:19] Manager
I told you I'll evaluate you.
[14:21] Rampo
Nope.
[14:22] Rampo
This hag's already decided
she's not hiring me.
[14:25] Manager
Hag?!
[14:26] Rampo
You could have just been honest with me.
[14:28] Rampo
Why don't grown-ups ever say
what they're really thinking?
[14:31] Rampo
Same thing with how you're
dealing with this guy.
[14:34] Rampo
The reason you aren't introducing
him to the municipal police
[14:37] Rampo
is because you want him to
keep an eye on the police.
[14:39] Rampo
And have the police keep an eye on him.
[14:42] Rampo
In other words, you don't trust anyone—
[14:44] Fukuzawa
That's enough.
[14:47] Fukuzawa
I don't care what your intentions are.
[14:50] Fukuzawa
I'm simply going to do my
best to prevent the crime.
[14:54] Fukuzawa
I'd like to speak with the staff.
Is that all right?
[14:59] Manager
Do as you wish.
[15:03] Rampo
Grown-ups are so quick to anger.
[15:09] Fukuzawa
I'm not surprised you don't
last long on any job.
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The Night Is Real
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Tokio-sama
[15:14] Murakami
Why do you speak to me
right before the show?
[15:17] Murakami
Do you know what an actor is
going through prior to a show?
[15:21] Murakami
We dive into another world.
[15:23] Murakami
As though we are different people.
[15:32] Murakami
I've trained for nearly a year for this.
[15:35] Murakami
If they mess with me,
they'll be the dead ones.
[15:38] Fukuzawa
I'll respect your work.
[15:41] Fukuzawa
But you are the ones who
may end up murdered.
[15:44] Fukuzawa
Do you ever end up on your
own during the performance?
[15:47] Murakami
Yeah.
[15:48] Murakami
We're defenseless when we're up there.
[15:51] Murakami
I'm on my own for minutes.
[15:54] Fukuzawa
Where?
[15:55] Murakami
On the stage.
[15:57] Murakami
I'm the lead actor, believe it or not.
[16:00] Rampo
Huh.
[16:00] Rampo
You're the lead actor?
[16:02] Rampo
Murakami... Tokio?
[16:04] Rampo
Never heard of you.
[16:05] Murakami
Who is that brat?
[16:07] Rampo
Hey, what's this play about?
[16:10] Murakami
You've received the script, haven't you?
[16:12] Rampo
That script's boring.
[16:14] Rampo
I gave up after the first page.
[16:16] Fukuzawa
Boy...
[16:18] Murakami
I see.
[16:21] Murakami
If you think it's boring, it must be boring.
[16:28] Murakami
That's for the audience
to decide, after all.
[16:41] Woman C
Have you met Murakami?
[16:43] Woman C
This play's practically a one-man show.
[16:47] Woman C
He's been meeting a lot with the
stagewright, Kurahashi-san.
[16:51] Man D
No one actually thinks there's
going to be a murder.
[16:55] Man D
But if someone's going to get hit,
it'd probably be Murakami-kun.
[16:58] Man D
He's got a lot of women
chasing after him, too.
[17:01] Man D
I only have a minor role.
[17:03] Man D
I'm not even worth threatening.
[17:06] Man D
Maybe I'll become a taxi driver or
something once this performance is over.
[17:13] Women E
You know what that is?
[17:14] Fukuzawa
Hm?
[17:15] Women E
It's an affair.
[17:17] Women E
It's a tiny association.
[17:18] Women E
Maybe they slept with a newcomer.
[17:20] Women E
Or they broke up and quit the group.
[17:24] Women E
I'm sure there's a person
or two they want to kill.
[17:33] Rampo
They have potato chips!
[17:35] Rampo
And the chocolates I missed out on!
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the
Serial
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of
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Cliques
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[17:40] Rampo
I'm getting hungry, mister.
[17:43] Rampo
Hey, mister, are you listening?
[17:49] Rampo
I'm starving.
[17:51] Rampo
And I'm not getting that job.
[17:53] Rampo
Whatever.
[17:55] Rampo
Someone's going to die soon and
this theater's going to get shut down.
[17:59] Fukuzawa
I won't let the murder happen.
[18:02] Fukuzawa
That's why I was called here.
[18:05] Fukuzawa
Neither the theater nor the municipal
police are taking the threat seriously.
[18:09] Fukuzawa
Regardless of the motivation
behind the threat...
[18:13] Rampo
It's not a threat.
[18:15] Rampo
It's not a threat. It's a warning.
[18:18] Rampo
A threat always offers two options.
[18:21] Rampo
"Do ABC, or I will do XYZ."
[18:24] Rampo
That's a threat.
[18:26] Rampo
But right now, all we have is a warning
saying "we're going to kill a performer."
[18:29] Rampo
So, it's not a threat so
much as a declaration.
[18:34] Rampo
The attacker hasn't made any
demands of the theater to begin with.
[18:38] Fukuzawa
When did you realize that?
[18:40] Rampo
When I heard what the letter said.
[18:46] (Flashback) Fukuzawa
When did you realize the
secretary was the murderer?
[18:49] (Flashback) Rampo
From the beginning.
[18:52] Fukuzawa
This boy must see truth.
[18:57] Fukuzawa
Why didn't you say anything, if you knew?
[19:00] Rampo
I didn't think you'd misinterpreted
the warning as a threat.
[19:06] Fukuzawa
Do you believe everyone else
notices all the things you notice?
[19:15] (Flashback) Rampo
No documents have been stolen,
[19:17] (Flashback) Rampo
and the assassin didn't kill the president.
[19:22] (Flashback) Rampo
The reason you aren't introducing
him to the municipal police
[19:25] (Flashback) Rampo
is because you want him to
keep an eye on the police.
[19:28] Fukuzawa
This boy doesn't understand that
nobody else knows anything.
[19:35] Fukuzawa
He's convinced that everyone
else already knows the truth
[19:39] Fukuzawa
and is simply hiding the
fact that they know.
[19:44] Fukuzawa
Boy, what can you gather of me,
from what you see?
[19:48] Fukuzawa
You said you have nowhere
to stay tonight.
[19:50] Rampo
I don't.
[19:52] Fukuzawa
You can stay the night at my place.
[19:55] Rampo
Your place?
[19:56] Fukuzawa
Yeah.
[19:57] Fukuzawa
So, tell me.
[19:59] Fukuzawa
Tell me anything you notice about me.
[20:02] Rampo
Grown-ups sure do love their quid pro quos.
[20:06] Rampo
I've only just met you,
so there isn't much I can tell...
[20:10] Rampo
You're in your early thirties.
[20:12] Rampo
You're a bodyguard.
[20:14] Rampo
A master of martial arts.
[20:16] Rampo
Single.
[20:17] Rampo
No coworkers.
[20:18] Rampo
Right-handed.
[20:19] Rampo
You chose a seat by the
wall at the restaurant,
[20:22] Rampo
so you must be a swordsman, as well.
[20:24] Rampo
I guess that the reason you don't
use your katana for work anymore
[20:27] Rampo
is because you're ashamed of your last job.
[20:30] Rampo
What's a job that involves swordplay
and that you'd be ashamed of?
[20:34] Rampo
Come to think of it, there was some buzz
about an incident a few years ago...
[20:38] Rampo
Pro-war bureaucrats and overseas
military cliques were found dead
[20:43] Rampo
one after another during the
peace treaty debates.
[20:47] Rampo
And you were grimacing a bit as you looked
at the newspaper headline in the shop earlier.
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Military
Cliques
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[20:53] Rampo
Are you—
[20:54] Fukuzawa
Silence!
[21:04] Fukuzawa
I'm sorry.
[21:05] Fukuzawa
Are you all right?
[21:11] Rampo
Yeah.
[21:12] Rampo
I'm fine.
[21:14] Fukuzawa
This boy's the real deal.
[21:20] Fukuzawa
Boy, help me with this job.
[21:23] Fukuzawa
If we manage to do well,
I'll introduce you to more work.
[21:28] Fukuzawa
Well?
[21:29] Rampo
Okay.
[21:31] Rampo
I'll help.
[21:35] Announcement
The doors will now open.
[21:37] Announcement
Please make your way to the theater.
[21:53] Fukuzawa
What the hell am I doing?
[21:56] Fukuzawa
I already decided that I'd work alone.
[22:05] Fukuzawa
Let's go.
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